Glove



y 1941- M. c. MOSIER GLOVE Filed Feb. 3, 1940 INVENTOR. 77ZzZ5arn/ 6772ORNEY.

Patented May 20, 1941 UNITED ST GLOVE Milburn 0. Mosier, OakwoodHeights, Staten Island, N. Y.

Application February 3, 1940, Serial No. 317,066

2 Claims.

This invention relates to gloves, and more particularly to glovesintended for wear by golfers, automobilists, outdoor workers, sportsmenand others requiring protection for the hands, yet permitting a requiredamount of freedom.

Golfers, automobilists and others often find the use of gloves ofconventional form a handicap since they do not permit intimate contactof the hands with the golf club, steering wheel or the like. Golfersparticularly, find that contact of the bare hands with the bait of theclub is desirable to insure accuracy of stroke, yet coldstifiened handsinterfere greatly with skillful play.

The primary object of the invention therefore is to provide a glovehaving apertured portions in its front face, and particularly in thepalm and base portions of the finger stalls, whereby a golf club,steering wheel or the like, when gripped in the gloved hand, will befirmly held between the bared portions of the hand, yet the back of thehand and the finger tips, which are the portions of the hand morereadily affected by the cold, will be covered and protected therefrom byimperforate portion of the glove.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, Fig. l is aperspective view of a glove made in accordance with the invention; Fig.2 is a face view of a knitted glove in which the invention isincorporated; and Fig. 3 is a face view of a mitten provided with theinvention.

With reference to the construction shown in Fig. l, I indicates a glovewhich may be made in any known form and composed of any suitablematerial such as leather, fabric or the like. The glove has its frontface or palm portion provided with an opening 2 through which the palmof the Wearers hand is exposed. The glove is also provided with fingerstalls 4 of conventional form, each of said finger stalls beingprovided, adjacent to its point of joinder to the body of the glove,with an opening or aperture 3. The front portion of the glove is thusformed with a larger palm-exposing opening 2 and -a plurality of smalleropenings 3, each of which is located in one of the finger stalls nearthe base portion of the same.

The result of this construction is that when an article such as a golfclub, automobile steering wheel or the like, is gripped in the hand, thearticle will be gripped and held between bared portions of the hand,namely the palm portion exposed through the opening 2 and the fingerportions exposed through the several small finger openings 3. An articleso gripped is held between and in intimate contact with the bareportions of the hand and the wearing of the glove is renderedunobtrusive and is found in no wise inconvenient, since it does not inany way interfere with the play and use of the hand. Since the entireback of the glove is imperforate, the back of the hand is fullyprotected from exposure. Similarly, since the small openings 3 in thefinger stalls are remote from the tips of the finger stalls, the tips ofthe fingers are fully enclosed and completely protected from cold andexposure. In other Words, in wearing the glove, those portions of thehand which require protection are fully covered and protected byimperforate parts of the glove while those portions of the hand whichare engaged in gripping or holding an article and require close orintimate contact therewith are bared and permitted to directly contactthe article being gripped.

It will be apparent that with such an arrangement, all of the advantagesof direct contact of the hand are provided, yet the more sensitiveportions of the hand are protected from exposure and cold when the gloveis worn.

In the structure shown in Fig. 1, the glove is of the type that isgenerally made of leather or similar material. In Fig. 2, the inventionis shown as applied to a knitted glove '5, the openings 2 and 3 beingformed in the knitting process and being suitably reinforced to preventtearing or enlargement. In Fig. 3, a mitten 6 is shown and with such anarrangement a palm opening I is provided, the same being similar to thatshown at 2 in the structures of Figs. 1 and 2. Since a mitten of thetype shown has no finger stalls, other than the thumb stall 9, a singleopening 8 may be provided as a substitute for the separate smalleropenings 3, although of course the smaller openings 3 may be used in themitten type of glove just as in a fingered glove. The thumb stall 9 inthe structure of Fig. 3 may be provided with an opening or the openingmay be omitted.

From the foregoing, the advantages of the improved glove will be readilyapparent. With two series of openings provided, an article held in thehand is definitely gripped between two bared surfaces of the hand andthe effect of gripping the article in the bare hand is had. Protectionis amply afforded for the back of the hand and the tips of the fingersso that the glove, while affording a maximum of protection from thecold, does not in any Way interfere with securely gripping and holding agolf club, automobile steering wheel or the like.

face; one of said openings causing the palm of the hand to be exposed,and other of said openings exposing lower portions of the inner faces ofthe fingers whereby an article gripped in the gloved hand will be heldbetween the exposed portions of the palm and fingers, the glove havingan imperforate back and finger tip portions.

IMILBURN C. MOSIER.

